
DPAC being presented with the Safer Business Award
Two women who stole hundreds of pounds worth of clothing climbed up hills, over railings, and hid in a doorway in a bid to escape. But they had been followed and watched by a DPAC member who informed an approaching police officer, and they were arrested.
A man suspected of possessing drugs thought he might get away with it if he dropped the drugs out of sight of the police. But he was seen by a DPAC member, arrested and charged.
A woman who carried out a series of jewellery thefts was arrested by plain clothes police officers who, working with five members of DPAC and CCTV operators, tracked her through the town centre to one of the back streets where she thought she was out of sight.